Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.